Afghanistan through Afghan Voices
Afghanistan through Afghan Voices is a series of virtual workshops that highlights and critically engages with recent scholarship on one of the most culturally diverse regions in the world. It aims to open an inclusive and multidisciplinary space where Afghan scholars and artists come together in conversation with broad audiences to publicly reflect on their research endeavors and creative trajectories. Monthly programs include Afghan artists from around the globe in dialogue with scholars of literature, art, and history; panels featuring conversations on visual culture and media; and poetry readings in Persian/Dari, Pashto, and English.
The series is hosted via Zoom by the UCLA Program on Central Asia and co-sponsored by the University of Washington’s Persian and Iranian Studies Program, Stanford University’s Center for South Asia and Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, as well as the Center for India and South Asia.
Organizers: Aria Fani (University of Washington), Domenico Ingenito (UCLA), Mejgan Massoumi (Stanford University)
Past Events
Panel with Parwana Fayyaz (Cambridge), Rahman Arman (Indiana University), Elyas Alavi (Adelaide, Australia), Julie Ershadi (UCLA), and Domenico Ingenito (UCLA)
Panel with Ahmad Rashid Salim (Berkeley), Zuzanna Olszewska (Oxford), and Samuel Hodgkin (Yale)
Discussant: Aria Fani (University of Washington)
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Panel with Wazhmah Osman (Temple University), Helena Zeweri (University of Virginia), and Hosai Qasmi (University of Ottawa)
Discussant: Mejgan Massoumi (Stanford)
Panel with Marjan Wardaki (Yale), Nicolas Roth (Harvard), and Nicole Ferreira (UC Berkeley)
Discussant: Aria Fani (University of Washington)
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Book Panel on Zrinka Stahuljak's Les Fixeurs au Moyen âge - Histoire et littérature connectées
The American "war on terror" launched in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the events of 9/11 was part of an elaborate neo-con politico-military scheme to reshape the strategic landscape of the…